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American footballs

American footballs is the plural of American football.

Meaning of American football

Noun

American football (countable and uncountable, plural American footballs)

  1. (uncountable) A team sport similar to rugby football, played by two teams of eleven players on a rectangular field with goalposts at each end.
    • Chain mail, or an American football suit—that's what you'll want.1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, “‘Try your Luck with Professor Challenger’”, in The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC, page 27
  2. (countable) The ball used to play the sport of American football.

Questions about American footballs

What is American footballs the plural of?
American footballs is the plural of American football.

Words near American footballs in the dictionary

  1. American flamingoes
  2. American flamingos
  3. American football
  4. American footballer
  5. American footballers
  6. American footballs
  7. American forge
  8. American forges
  9. American Fork
  10. American foulbrood
  11. American Foxhound

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